THE BATTALION
finished in the first five, and seven
finished in first ten. This is the first
time in history that the Seniors have
come out on top over the Juniors in
the contests held at Dallas. Of
course no belittlement of the Jun
iors’ as stock judgers is insinuated.
By this time next year it is hoped
that they will be better judges than
the present Seniors. Considering the
rainy weather the class of judging,
as a whole, was very high.
The question uppermost in every-
mind now is the International team.
This Dallas contest by no means de
cided who is to make the team. The
men will not be chosen until the last
class is judged. In fact, it is on the
last leg of the race that the ones who
have the strong finish who will bring
home the bacon. Let every man try
for this very choice meat. Even a
smell is better than nothing at all.
A. AND M. DEFEATS HOWARD
PAYNE—DEFENSE OF VIS
ITORS GOOD
An A. and M. team had the sing
ular experience Saturday of playing
against a junior college eleven that
outweighed them. This superiority
of brawn, the muddy field, and the
unexpected ability of the men from
Howard Payne brought out all the
fight of a fighting team of a fighting
school. It was the hardest game the
team has had and it took seme min
utes for this fact to dawn on the Ag
gies. When it did, things as usual
began to explode. Mahan seemed
especially unstable and every few
minutes blew a hole in the Yellow
Jackets’ nest and, incidentally in
their aspirations.
The visitors played, with the pos
sible exception o fthe. first quarter, a
j^e game, in theory and in fact.
la aiwaysTmds such tacuics;
it had been raining on Kyle Field for
a week. The first quarter was mark
ed by inconsistent gains by the
Farmers and good defensive work by
Howard Payne. Mahan and Higgin
botham showed their usual speed and
driving power and, but for the won-
derfrl defensive playing of Schwiil,
Thompson and Shattuck, would have
caused the score boy to start work.
A. and M. started the second quarter
like business, but the offensive had
not quite the steadiness to carry the
defense behind their goal line. Twice
the Aggies were near enough to try
for field goal but failed each time.
Throughout the half, the ball was
continually kept in Howard Payne’s
territory and never did the hostile
offense take on dangerous propor
tions. The period ended with the ball
in A. and M.’s possession on the vis
itor’s 40 yard line.
Bible must have said something
to the team during the intermission.
At any rate the ball started north
ward at once and didn’t stop until
it was back of Howard Payne’s goal
line. Bible sent in Knickerbocker,
risking a fracture of his shoulder
hurt in the first game of the season.
His heady aggressiveness gave the
Farmers just the steadiness they
needed. Mahan, the dependable,
with two tries plunged over with the
ball from the 20 yard line. Mahan
failed to kick goal. But that didn’t
stop the fight Mahan, Higgin
botham and Martin fought their w xy
to the four yard line, Mahan break
ing loose for several brilliant runs,
when the quarter ended. This only
enabled the Aggies to cross the south
goal instead of the north, Mahan
carrying the ball. Mahan missed
goal from a difficult angle. No
further scoring took place though A.
and M. threatened once. Knicker
bocker, harldy able, for his lame
shoulder, to pick up the ball from the
ground, returned a punt 40 yards,
the longest run of the game, to
Howard Payne’s twenty yard line.
However, a forward pass was inter
cepted and the chance to score was
lost. The ball was in the enemy ter
ritory the remainder of the game.
Final score: A. and M. 12, Howard
Payne 0.
The whole game was hard and
snappy. Schwiil and Thompson
were brilliant on the defense. Mahan,
on the ocense and Wilson, on the de
fense, were largely responsible for
the Aggie’s victory. The line as a
whole fought hard against a handicap
of weight but not once did it serious
ly break. Howard Payne made all of
her gains by open playing. The
Farmer’s goal line was never in
danger and the backfield finally made
their plunging attacks effective. Fight
won us this game; and fight is going
to repeat the performance of the
1917 team. We won’t be satisfied
with less.
The line-hp:
Howard Payne Position A. & M.
Shattuck Alexander
Right End
G. Taylor Davis
Right Tackle
Albright Wilson (Captain)
L. Taylor
Right Guard
Vandervoort
Wells
Center
Murrah
Thompson
Left Guard
Drake
Green
Left Tackle
Pierce
Woodard
Left End
Morris
Steward
Quarter Back
Mahan
Full Back
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Right Half
Schwiil Martin
Left Half
Substitutions:
1st Quarter: Scudder for Murrah;
Harrison for Morris.
2nd Quarter: Weir for Martin;
Touchstone for Pierce; Carruthers
for Davis; Patillo for Scudder; Asken
for Weir.
3rd Quarter: Knickerbocker for
Harrison.
4th Quarter: Touchstone for
Pierce; Pierce for Vandervoort; Weir
for Higginbotham; Keen for Davis;
V/endt for Murrah.
First Downs: A. and M. 17: How
ard Payne 2.
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
ING STRONG
GO-
Lots of Pep and Interest
During the war the Horticultural
Society, at one time the livest stu
dent organization of the college, was
discontinued, due to the Junior and
Senior Horticultural classes being
with the colors. The Society has been
reorganized with Fred W. Westcourt
as president; T. Hall, vice president;
and M. B. Lebo, secretary and treas
urer. The first meeting was made
quite interesting by cases of apples,
oranges and nuts. The plans are to
have some particular horticultural
fruit as the topic of discussion for
the meetings in the future and serve
the fruit as refreshments. The So
ciety has a large membership and is
growing steadily, giving great prom
ise of a very lively and interesting as
well as beneficial year to the Horti
cultural students.
Regardless of whatever else we
may or may not know, we’ll bet
“two-bits” the same man didn’t in
vent reveille and spiral puttees.
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